Journalism Diversity Fund Update
Friday, September 26, 2014 at 15:14 
We reported yesterday on the Journalism Diversity Fund lunch, hosted by the BBC. NLA media access made a donation of £100,000 to continue the great work that the Fund is doing to promote diversity in newsrooms; bringing our total contribution to date to just under £1m (David Pugh is pictured presenting the sponsorship cheque to Kim Fletcher (left), Chairman of the JDF).
One of the speakers at the celebratory lunch was Layth Yousif, now a reporter at the Bedford Times and Citizen. He spoke eloquently about his background as a son of immigrants to the UK, the struggle that he had to get into journalism – and the support that the JDF provided to make it possible.
You can read a full account of Layth’s story in this article from Hold the Front Page.